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UNrriLin STATES.

S. G. MRRSON, OF WLLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

iiripaovee carnets.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lpiiml, dated December 24, 1861.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it ,known-that l, S. G. MORRISON, of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Canteen; and I do hereby deelare 'that the following is a full and exact de scription thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, vand to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in pro-4 and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

construct my canteen of any desired form and material, and apply thereto a gum-elastic or cone having a hole in its center, which hole is bound with a ring: ot gum-elastic on the outer or upper side of the cape, and having attached thereto a film of gum-elastic of l any required width for the purpose of lling the aperture of the ring when the cape is removed from the canteen and reversed for the purpose of a cup, (marked A,) and fitting toA and extending down around the .body of the canteen to the dotted line a a. in Fig. l. Fig. 2 represents the canteen with its cape inverted A or a When arranged for a funnel for the purpose of filling. Fig. 3 represents a cup formed by removing cape A from the canteen and invertingthe saine,eXcept theringaround, and which forms the hole in the center of the guinfelastic cape, which is compressed in the act of inverting, thereby closing` up the hole or aperture in the same.

1What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi The application to canteens of a cone or cape of any elastic material, which, by inverting, may form a funnel on the canteen or removed therefrom may be used as a cup, sul stantially as and for the purpose specified.

S. G. MORRISON.

Witnesses HENRY W. WATSON, H. MCCLURE. 

